Page 6 - Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1
Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors

part one: mediated religion and its new publics
1. Cassette Ethics: Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt 29
Charles Hirschkind
2. Future in the Mirror: Media, Evangelicals, and Politics in
Rio de Janeiro 52
Patricia Birman

3. Communicating Authority, Consuming Tradition: Jewish
Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public 73
Jeremy Stolow
4. Holy Pirates: Media, Ethnicity, and Religious Renewal
in Israel 91
David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner

part two: public religion and the politics of
difference
5. Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and
the Politics of Presence 115
Annelies Moors
6. Morality, Community, Publicness: Shifting Terms of Public
Debate in Mali 132
Dorothea E. Schulz
7. Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency: Journalistic
Writing on War-Torn Maluku 152
Patricia Spyer
8. Mediated Religion in South Africa: Balancing Airtime and
Rights Claims 166
Rosalind I. J. Hackett